Part 1: Boston Area Second Wave Organizations, 1968-1998, consists of eight of the most active of the Second Wave grassroots organizations:

• Boston Female Liberation, 1968-1974
  This collection documents one of the earliest radical feminist organizations, confronting such issues as self-defense, equal wages, birth control, consumerism, and the media's portrayal of women. This collection consists of many of the earliest programmatic documents for the movement, including newsletters, position papers, statements, correspondence, legal documents, fliers, and press releases.
• The Boston Area Feminist Coalition
  This collection documents the effort to organize women and feminist groups during the period 1981-1983, and especially to organize against the New Right, to build effective communication networks, and to create a political discourse that acknowledged the differences among women. The collection contains meeting minutes and agendas, press releases, correspondence, proposals, member lists, fliers, and a scrapbook documenting the Coalition's activities.
• Boston Women's Union, Records, 1973-1976
  This collection includes notes, minutes, position papers, project analyses, and newsletters for this Boston Area Socialist-Feminist Organization, related to the Bread and Roses organization. This group included many well-known names from the early days of socialist feminism, including Leslie Cagan, Tess Ewing and Nancy Weschler. There is a folder on the Socialist Feminist conference held in 1975 at Antioch College and a folder on the defense of Joann Little and Dr. Edelin, each a cause celebre for Leftist women.
• Women's Educational Center
  The collection documents the growth of the Feminist women's empowerment movement, not only in the Boston Area, but also across the country. Founded by Bread and Roses, a group of Socialist-Feminist women, the collection discusses the issues of forced sterilization, job training, and Lesbian Mothers. The Center provided women with referrals to outside community resources, including doctors, therapists, lawyers, clinics, housing and job opportunities It documents the Center's struggle to provide a safe haven for the women of the Boston area. All of these activities are described in the detail of correspondence, memoranda, and reports.
• Women's School (Cambridge, MA) Records
  The school, founded in 1971, was as an alternative source of feminist education, and its ideologies were based on socialist feminism. The school was operated by a collective and classes were taught by volunteers. Classes were offered on anti-racism, auto mechanics, growing up female, international women's struggles, lesbianism, Marxism, older women and many other topics. This collection offers a glimpse into the intellectual and political thinking of feminists during the 1970s and 1980s. The Women's School closed in 1992 and was the longest running women's school of its type in the U.S.
• Abortion Action Coalition 1970-1982
  Documents the founding and development of the Coalition and provides insight into the challenges women faced as federal and state legislators tried to curtail abortion rights. Records include Abortion Action Coalition brochures, articles on abortion and women's health issues, clippings, correspondence, flyers, "how to" media packets, information on clinics, minutes, organizing materials, pamphlets, data about abortion and women's health legislation during the 1970s, and speeches.
• Women Against Violence Against Women Records, 1972-1985
  The Boston chapter of Women Against Violence Against Women was founded in 1977 in response to a billboard advertisement for "Black and Blue" by the Rolling Stones. The chapter protested the glorification and acceptance of violence against women as promoted by the film and recording industries. This collections includes correspondence between the organization and its supporters, film and record executives, and anti-violence organizations; information on publicity efforts; and subject files of articles, bibliographies, brochures, essays, and newsletters relating to issues on battered women, boycotts, censorship, child sexual abuse, family violence, the film industry, pornography, rape, the recording industry, sadomasochism, and television
• Massachusetts Coalition of Battered Women Service Groups, Records, 1979-1981
  This collection documents the Boston area efforts to provide shelter, counseling, and referrals to women and children victimized by domestic violence.

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